Volume 1

A six months tour through the north of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population in several counties of this kingdom ... interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other remarkable objects : illustrated with copper plates ... / [Arthur Young].

  • Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Date:
1771
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Credit: A six months tour through the north of England. Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population in several counties of this kingdom ... interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry, and other remarkable objects : illustrated with copper plates ... / [Arthur Young]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SOME private bufinefs carrying me in¬ to the fouth of Wales, gave birth to the Six Weeks Tour, which I wrote chiefly as an amufement on the road ; nor was I fenfible that the papers might be of ufe, till I fat down to confider them again. It then appeared to me, that a view of Englijh agriculture would be ferviceable. The public, by a very kind reception of it, has confirmed the idea, and induced me to undertake a more extenfive Tour.— But as my time before was limited, and I had other things to regard befides my book, I determined to have no other employ¬ ment in my new journey, and to take fucli means of procuring intelligence, as were open to a perfon, who could command fo few advantages. With this view, I inferted the following advertifement, in many of the London pa¬ pers, and in all the country ones, published near my intended rout. The Author of the Six Weeks Tour through the fouthern counties of England A and